The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-06-01
Summer Fashions.

The summer dress goods are more than
usually handsome and varied this year, and
il of course follows that the modes are
also of the greatest beauty and diversity.
Perhaps the most popular among the
fabrics for wear during the warm
months are the finer grades of wooden ma
terials, such as chuddah cloths, those
popular favorites, the colored armures,
camels hairs, etc.
The ever present cashmere will figure
extensively in street and house toilets, and
tie finer grade cheviots will be consider
ably in use, especially for misses dresses.
School costumes in checked cheviots are
very much liked.
For seaside toilets, lawn tennis, and
yachting costumes, plain and striped sum-
mer serges will be used extensively, but
! lighter and perhaps more graceful dresses
are already shown in CLEANLINESS, tussores,
India silks, foulards, and French satines.
Examines are shown IN the most pleasing
tints, and will be worn by many young
ladies as prominent features in their coun-
try wardrobes.
Altogether, from the present outlook, it
seems to me that no lady ought to find any
difficulty in selecting her summer outfit.
Giants de tUre. as they are called, are kid
gloves, for wear in the evening, which have
silk spaces between the fingers, so as TO
prevent the great inconvenience many
ladies experience from excessive perspira-
ton during the progress OF crowded
affair"
have previousiy-a week or so ago
mentioned the great popularity which lace
toilets have obtained this season. In
connection with this it may be mentioned
| that many ladies, after securing a graceful
overdress of black chantilly, wear beneath
it, on separate occasions, various of their
palmer dresses, of suitable colors, and so
practically enlarge their wardrobes con-
siderably, as the combination of q plainly
made suit with the overdress of lace pro-
duces, TO all appearance, new toilet.
Straw hats everywhere. Fine straws and
coarse straws, fancy straws and plain ones;
IN crowns aud low. These are the first
impressions-the crude ideas-one gets
from looking over an assortment of fash
ionable millinery at present.
Some of the shapes are unique. For
example, one extremely pretty hat, whose
crown was moderately high, had brim
which commenced in front, fat. On each
side it curled gradually higher till point
was reached half way back; here it took a
sudden twist forward and upward, then
another bend, still higher, until finally il
became nearly level with the crown. This
brm was smoothly faced with dark hello
trope velvet, slashed on the edge so that
the straw-a light lavender became visi-
| BILE. The crown was covered with lace,
melted across with iridescent beads, and
| the garniture consisted of small blue
| breasted humming-bird perched on one
side, beneath him appearing large knot
of mingled English pink and heliotrope
ribbon.
A plain but very pleasing dress, for wear
upon the street, is in dark-blu camel's-
hair cloth, with trimmings only of braid
and buttons. This dress has a killed skirt
the plaits being carried back on each side
until they pear to merge in, rather than
pass beneath, the black drapery, which is,
! by the way, much the more graceful fash
| ion. As near as it can be described upon
paper it is accomplished thus The under
most fold of the drapery is made very flat
and very long. only about five inches of il
being allowedto show beyond the OVERLAPPING
| folds. This fold lies right against the last
plat of the skirt, so that one can hardly
say whether the plat is the drapery or Uice
rersd. The tGb6er is very short and
round, The bottom of it being edged with
braid. To describe the basque Is unneces-
sary-it is as plain as a riding habit. Its
only peculiarly is the way in which the
side is cut; it runs back in a straight line,
SO that the side basques (for it is cut into
three are allowed to fit upon the sides OF
the tOUTnure.